The Routledge Companion to Young Adult Literature

Jennifer Mooney is Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, where she chairs the MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Mooney has published on Irish and international young adult literature and Irish writing. She is the author of Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction (2022).

Gabriel Duckels is Assistant Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at Texas State University, USA. His research has been published in numerous venues such as the Children's Literature Association Quarterly and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus in English and Children's Literature, Cardiff University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland. He has written or edited nearly forty books on children's and YA literature, including Alice's Oxford: People and Places that Inspired Wonderland (2025).

Keith O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in the School of English, Dublin City University, Ireland, where he also serves as deputy chair of the MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature degree programme.

Cristina Rhodes is Associate Professor of English at Shippensburg University, USA. She is the author of Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures (2026) and co-author of Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction (with Cristina Herrera; 2026).